Harmonising and reinforcing the fight against fraud across the EU: crosscutting anti-fraud policies, measures and results in 2018

AuthorEuropean Anti-Fraud Office (European Commission)
Pages17-27
17
th Annual Report on the Protection of the European Union’s financial interests — Fight against fraud 
. Harmonising and reinforcing
the fight against fraud across
the EU: crosscutting anti-fraud
policies, measures and results
in 
.. Legislative acts adopted by the EU institutions
... Regulation implementing enhanced cooperation on the
establishment of EPPO: state of play
Following the adoption of the EPPO regulation, in August 2018, the Netherlands and
Malta conf‌ir med their membership to t he EPPO, bringing the tot al number of particip ating
Member States to 22. The EPPO will be competent t o investigate, prosecute and bring to
judgment crim inal of‌fences af‌fecti ng EU’s f‌inancial inter ests as def‌ined in t he PIF Directive.
The EPPO is expected to be operational by the end of 2020, following a setting up pe-
riod of at least 3 years provided for in the EPPO Regulation. Establishing the EPPO is a
Commission prior ity and this process is well adva nced.
In 2018, the Commission appointed an interim Administrative Director, responsible for
the administrative and budgetary matters. The procedures for the recruitment of the
European Chief Prosecutor and of the European Prosecutors were also launched. The
Commission invited Member States to nominate their candidates for the position of
European Pro secutor by the end of March 2019.
The part icipating Member States are b eing consulted througho ut the process through t he
group of exper ts that was set up in accord ance with the EPPO Regu lation.
... The Omnibus Regulation
Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2018/1046, the ‘Omnibus regulation’, was adopted on 18 July
2018. The Omnibus regulation amends the existing Financial Regulation which sets out
the overall framework for budget management, as well as a number of acts governing
the EU’s multia nnual programmes in va rious f‌ields, including c ohesion policy. The Omn ibus
regulation t herefore revises the EU ’s f‌inancial rules to simpl ify them and make them mo re
result-oriented. It includes revisions that simplify the use of f‌inancial instruments under
the Europea n Structural and Invest ment Funds.
Article 61 of th e Financial Regulation re def‌ines conf‌lict of inter ests for all f‌inancial act ors
implementing the EU budget in the various management modes, including at national
level. This is likely to e ngender a large increase in t he use of “declarations of interes t” by
f‌inancial ac tors, an increase of tran sparency, and better publ ic conf‌idence.
.. Shaping the future: European institutions’ legislative and
policy initiatives
The next se ction gives an overview of major d evelopments in Commission po licy and leg-
islative initiat ives in 2018.

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